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blueish

a. (alternative spelling of bluish English)

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blueish

adj. having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue, blue-black]

Usage examples of "blueish".

Her hair streamed among the waterweed and her mouth was blueish and open, like the mouth of a fish.

It is a physical thing, an opaque blueish film seems to cover the eyeballs.

Like most of the tribes from the north their skins were a very dark blueish black.

A spurt of fire, a gasp of pain, A blueish blurr on the yellow plain, The chief was down, and his bridle rein Was in the grip of the stranger.

The street gleamed under the blueish light of the street lamps and the blue before-dawn light of the sky.

His face was thin and pale, though his lips were thickly sensual and of a blueish hue which glistened slightly, as if he emphasized or protected them with lipstick or salve.

Up in the thick blueish foliage of these trees, an immense colony of gay-coloured birds, evidently a sort of weaver, had plaited a continuous roof out of lianas, climbers, leaves and twigs.

Now this piece of bread is Hougoumont, and upon the rise stood the base of a ruined mill: I was on top of it, gazing at the general array, sweeping the countryside with my glass, and I saw a curious movement at the edge of the woods by Chapelle Saint-Lambert: a dark mass, a dark blueish mass - a Prussian blue.